Join scientific researchers and leaders from private, public and non-profit organizations that are pioneering the way to a world where all people thrive by protecting and regenerating Earth’s natural systems for generations to come.
Seminars will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 1:oo p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET and will be held as an online event through the Zoom platform. Seminars are open to all Harvard and non-Harvard affiliated individuals.
Fall 2021 Schedule
Seminar | Speaker | Discussant |
Planetary Health: Environmental Health 4.0 Wednesday, October 6 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Howard Frumkin, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington School of Public Health |
Allan Brandt, PhD
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine
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Drivers of malaria in Guyana: The impact of gold mining Wednesday, November 3 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Caroline Buckee, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health |
Sanna Sokolow, DVM, PhD
Executive Director of the Program for Disease Ecology Health and the Environment, Stanford University |
Bees as Health Workers: How Pollinators Protect Human Health Wednesday, December 1 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Lucas Garibaldi, PhD
Director, Institute for Research in Natural Resources, Agroecology and Rural Development, Sede Andina – National University of Río Negro and National Scientific and Technical Research Council. Matthew Smith, PhD Research Scientist, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health |
Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhDFredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology; Chair, Department of Nutrition |
Planetary Change is Driving New Patterns of Non-Communicable Disease Wednesday, January 5 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Francesca Dominici, PhD
Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Pauline Scheelbeek, PhD Assistant Professor in Nutritional and Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc Professor and Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College |
Sam Myers, MD, MPH
Principal Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Planetary Health Alliance |
Planetary Mental Health: How Accelerating Environmental Change is Impacting the Mental Health of Different Populations Wednesday, February 2 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Vide0 |
Frederick J. Stoddard Jr, MD Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners HospitalCaroline Hickman, MSLecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Centre for Analysis of Social Policy, University of BathAshlee Cunsolo, PhDFounding Dean, School of Arts and Subarctic, Labrador Institute Memorial University |
Lise Van Susteren, MD
Practicing General and Forensic Psychiatrist, Washington DC |
Displacement and Conflict: How Biophysical Changes are Undermining Global Security Wednesday, March 2 2022 1:oo – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Hélène Benveniste, PhD
Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment based at the Cullen Hendrix, PhD Jon Proctor, PhD |
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How the Private Sector Can Help Stimulate a Great Transition toward Planetary Health Thursday, April 7 2022 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Video |
Rüdiger Krech, MD, DrPH
Director of the Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization Paul Polman Michael Weatherhead Development Lead, Wellbeing Economy Alliance |
Dr. Iris Martine Blom
MPhil/PhD Candidate Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
Planetary Health as a Frame for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Wednesday, 4 May 2022 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Video |
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) Achim Steiner Administrator of the United Nations Development |
Samuel Myers, MD, MPH
Director, Planetary Health Alliance |
Seminars and Recordings
Fall 2021
Spring 2022
January/February/March/April/May
Contact
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